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Where it succeeds is everything listed above Gaiman's dialogue crackles and it's always seemed that this story was a particularly good one, and well-suited to his talents. The movie itself will likely be a sales success, and a "critical" success with buyers, mostly for the same reason the Joss Whedon Astonishing X-Men discs were. Their names have cache and Gaiman's has been proven time and again (including with The Eternals hardcover) to drive readers to the comic shops who wouldn't ordinarily be there.

In all likelihood this will do better than most of the Marvel Knights Animation DVDs, in part because of Gaiman and Romita.

So what's the verdict on The Eternals? It's really difficult to imagine how an audience will respond to it. None of those others felt nearly as natural paired with the rudimentary animation of Marvel Knights as the Kirby-derived titles did. The Hulk and Wolverine: Weapon X - sandwiched in between. And the two, weirdly, bookend the second "season" of Marvel Knights Animation, with a bunch of Wolverine material - Wolverine: Origin, Wolverine vs. Like The Inhumans, The Eternals is a Jack Kirby property full of huge ideas, big mythology and strange-looking characters and concepts.